Re: Decline of Science: Computer Science and Databases

"Carl Rosenberger" <carl_at_db4o.com> wrote in message news:<as84ci$cob$02$1_at_news.t-online.com>...
> Testing is a different beast. How thoroughly can you test that
> an application will survive your SQL UPDATE statements?

Until you find a system where "testing" is the same beast, you need to keep looking. Unless the DBMS and the application are one in the same, you are wasting time duplicating your efforts.

If you would look at recent purifactions of the Relational Model you would know that an application would survive any "SQL" UPDATE statement because the application and the developer applying wild statements to the DBMS have to use the same integrity constraints. That is the big deal, the news. Look into the true Relational Model and understand how to stop writing logic, constraints, validations, etc. at the application level. Also, learn how to stop writing stored procedures, triggers, id generators, etc. at the database level. It is all happen at the datatype and operator level. Relational algebra and predicate logic are better than OO. Received on Mon Dec 02 2002 - 20:34:34 CET